This is indeed extremely sad news, and I sincerely hope you re-consider your decision to shut down the Forum. Many Bluebird fans use the Forum to find out what is happening at the club, and it is a great shame that a few people seem to be ruining this excellent Forum for the majority. I'm sure many more posters over the coming days will be asking you to re-consider your decision, as this Forum is the platform for supporters to share views, opinions etc. I know the abusive comments have increased recently, but you strike me as being someone who is made of sterner stuff than that. I'm sure 99.99% of the posters on this Forum will agree with this.

Or ask for a volunteer to take over?

That’s a great shame that the minority can spoil it for the majority
This is a very useful forum for fans to communicate with each other and I hope you will reconsider it closure for the sake of the majority of decent fans

Admin, hopefully you'll reconsider or hand the site over to someone else. The forum provides a very useful service. Without it, most of us wouldn't have a clue what was going on. We might see the same game differently and have conflicting opinions about lots of things, but at the end of the day we all still feel the same elation when we win and the disappointment when we lose. We're all Chippenham, aren't we.